With the release of its first images this month, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory has begun a 10-year mission to help unravel ...

Featuring never-before-seen views of galaxies and more than 2,100 newly discovered asteroids, the observations are only a taste of what to expect from the telescope's upcoming decade-long survey ...

While about 20,000 previously unknown asteroids are discovered every year by telescopes around the world and spacecraft in ...

In just over 10 hours of test observations, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory captured millions of celestial objects, opening the ...

Only one of the known Venus co-orbital asteroids follows a nearly circular orbit; the others move on more elongated paths ...

The world’s most powerful digital camera has taken its first photos, and they reveal the cosmos in stunning detail. Shared as part of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s ‘First Look’ campaign, the ...

In its debut, the telescope turned its eye toward two familiar showstoppers in deep space: the Trifid and Lagoon nebulas in ...

Signs of planet formation may appear earlier than expected around still-forming baby stars, according to new results of ...

The observatory is named after Vera Rubin , an American astronomer, because she was a "trailblazing" astronomer, according to the facility's website, which noted Rubin "found conclusive evidence of ...

Jupiter will be too close to the sun to see Tuesday, but it will move farther out in the dawn sky and on Aug. 12 will have a ...

Everything in space - from the Earth and Sun to black holes - accounts for just 15% of all matter in the universe . The rest of the cosmos seems to ...

New high-resolution images of protoplanetary disks in the Ophiuchus star-forming region, created with improved analysis. The resolution is shown by ...